Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 102

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 824


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side. Three of the passengers who were sitting near Mr. Harrington when the coach went over were killed and all of the others were more or less injured. Mr. Harrington's injuries confined him in the house in Bethlehem to which he was removed from the scene of the accident for about three weeks. Mrs. Harrington came from the wreck unharmed, al- though her lady companion in the coach received a broken arm. Of late years Mr. Harrington has occupied his time in caring for a valuable property, the accumulation of many years. Harrington block at the corner of Main and Front streets is con- sidered one of the best locations for business pur- poses in the city of Worcester. He attends the Main Street Baptist Church, and is a member of the Commonwealth Club, and also of the Worcester Society of Antiquity.


He married (first) Lois Ann Harrington, of Millbury. She died, and he married ( second) Har- riet Elizabeth Bemis, June 20, 1867. She was daughter of William and Catherine (Eveleth) Bemis, of Spencer, where she was born October 8, 1831. During her childhood her parents removed to Worcester, where she received her early educa- tion in the public schools and the Oread Collegiate Institute, later becoming a teacher of music in that institution, continuing from 1854 to 1857.


Mrs. Harrington is a lineal descendant of John Bemis, who was born in Dedham, Essex county, England, as early as 1550, and at his death left a will proved June 28, 1604, by which we learn that he had by wife Anne the following children: Isaac, Luke, Neary, James, Susan, Abraham, and Joseph. This last named Joseph Bemis married, lived and died in England, leaving a son Joseph, born in Eng- land, 1619, who came to New England and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, as early as 1640, where he died August 7, 1684, having had by wife Sarah, nine children. The widow Sarah died about 1712.


John, born 1657, the youngest son of this Jo- seph, the farmer and blacksmith, married Mary Harrington in 1680; lived in Watertown and had fourteen children. Their sixth child, Samuel, born 1690, married, April 12, 1715, Sarah Barnard, and had eight children. William, the third child born in Sudbury, November I, 1722, married Rebecca White, July 5, 1750; and had Jesse, 1751; Sarah, 1753: David, 1755; Sibbilal, 1758; Rebecca, 1761; Persis, 1764; William, August 18, 1766; Silas, 1770. He died March 23, 1801, and his widow Rebecca died March 17, 1819. William Bemis, born August 18, '1766, married Lucretia Mirick, of Princeton; the intention of marriage is dated February 3, 1802. She died January 5, 1814. He married (second) Cath- erine Eveleth, also of Princeton, June 1, 1814. Chil- dren were: Charles, born July 6, 1805: Dexter, August 5, 1806; Jesse, March 12, 1808; Elizabeth, March 17, 1811; David, August 3, 1812; Lucretia Mirick, May 12, 1815: William, December 14, 1816; George, July 25, 1818; Horace, June 25, 1821 ; Ed- ward, July 27, 1824; and Harriet Elizabeth, October 8, 1826.


(I) The ancestral line of Chauncey Goodrich Harrington has been traced from Robert, who was born in England in 1616. He embarked from there in the ship "Elizabeth," April 10, 1634, and on arriv- ing in Massachusetts settled in Watertown, where his name appears among the list of proprietors in 1642 and 1644. He married, October 1, 1648, Susanna George, daughter of John George, of Watertown, then deceased as was also her mother, the widow of Henry Goldstone being her guardian. Robert was admitted freeman March 27, 1663, -and died May 11, 1707, aged ninety-one years. His will, dated January I, 1704-05, mentions sons John, Daniel,


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Benjamin, Samuel, Thomas, and Edward. To the latter he gave his homestead. His will also men- tions daughters, Susanna Beers, Sarah Winship, and Mary Bemis, showing thus early a union be- tween the Harrington family in New England with the Bemis family. The inventory of Robert's estate mentioned six hundred and forty-seven and one- half acres of land and included a house and inill all appraised at seven hundred and seventeen pounds. (II) Edward Harrington, born March 2, 1668- 69, the youngest son to grow to manhood of Robert and Susanna (George) Harrington, married (first), March 30, 1692, Mary Occington. She died and he married (second) Anna, widow of Jonathan Bullard, of Weston, Massachusetts. He was selectman of Watertown 1716-30-31. Their children were: Mary, born 1692; William, 1694; Mindwell, 1697; Joanna, 1699; Edward, 1702; Samuel, August 3, 1704; Na- thaniel, June 25, 1706, was a graduate of Harvard College 1728, and known as "Master Harrington"; Francis, June II, 1709; Susanna, September 9, 1711.


(III) Samuel Harrington, born August 3, 1704, married, October 19, 1725, Sarah Warren. He was called of Waltham. They had Samuel, baptized May 19, 1728; Mary, baptized same day.


(IV) Samuel Harrington, baptized May 19, 1728, was called of Worcester in 1776, at which time his daughter Hannah married Daniel Maynard, of Shrewsbury, and may have been in Worcester prior to April 19, 1775, when his son Samuel marched from Worcester in Captain Timothy Bigelow's com- pany for Lexington. His children were: Samuel, born 1754, married Silance Robinson ; he died 1838, aged eighty-four years; Hannah, born 1757, married Daniel Maynard, and lived in Shrewsbury; Noah, boin February 2, 1760, married Lois Kingsley ; Joshua ; and Jubal.


(V) Noah Harrington, born February 2, 1760, was matross in Colonel Thomas Craft's artillery regiment, 1775; William Todd's eighth Massachu- setts company, February I to May 8, 1776, three months and seven days in service. He may also have served in Captain Sibley's company, Colonel Keyes' regiment, mustered August 18, -, and in Captain Joseph Sibley's company, Colonel Dan- forth Keyes' regiment, enlisted July 20, 1777, and again from December 1, 1777, to January 2, 1778, and under Captain Dex for Rutland, afterward en- listing for three years.


He married, July 27, 1784, Lois, daughter of Enoch Kingsley. She was born September 12, 1760, and died October II, 1820. Their first home was in Shrewsbury where three of their children were born. They removed to Worcester about 1792, and lived on the road to Grafton where it passes quite near the Boston & Albany Railroad tracks. He, with his brother Samuel, kept a tavern in Boston on the site of the present Adams House. His children were: Lydia, born December 25, 1784; William, 1786, died in infancy; Hannalı, Septem- ber 23, 1792, died young; Samuel, died young; Will- iam, February 25, 1788; Luke, September 12, 1789, died November, 1855; Samuel, 1797, died April 4, 1855: Eliza, 1800, married a Mr. Shay, died July 17, 1869; Thomas J., January 27, 1804, died July 5, 1888; Hannah, July 17, 1809, married Henry Tower, and died March 23, 1853.


(VI) William Harrington, born February 25. 1788, married Abigail Adaline, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Stowell. She was born March 15, 1799. Her father and his brother Ebenezer, in com- pany with their father, Cornelius Stowell, were man- ufacturers of woolen goods, making a specialty of weaving carpets, dyeing and dressing woolen goods,


and printing calicoes. They made the first carpets used in the present state house in Boston.


Mr. Harrington passed his boyhood days upon his father's farm and attending the common schools, when a young man sought to learn the trade of a mason and bricklayer, and during the construction of the old Exchange building on Main street, near Exchange, when the brick walls were nearing their full height, the staging on which Mr. Harrington and others were at work gave way, and the work- men with their bricks and mortar fell to the ground, several of the men being severely injured. Mr. Har- rington was taken up for dead and carried to the opposite side of Main street near the corner of Wal- nut street, and laid in Mr. Hamilton's yard. Mrs. Hamilton detected some signs of life and efforts were made to revive him, which proved successful. In the fall his knee had been crushed. That with his other light injuries confined him to the house nearly five years, when the limb was amputated by Dr. John Green. As soon as he recovered from the operation he attended the Leicester Academy where he fitted for a teacher, and taught school in the Central Worcester district. He later kept a store on Main street on the site now occupied by the Piper block, and also was engaged in keeping a tavern at corner of Salem and Park streets. He died February 12, 1871, aged eighty-two years, eleven months and seventeen days. His children were: Frances A., born October 4, 1821; William Henry, April 29, 1824; Chauncey Goodrich, June 30, 1826.


HILTON FAMILY. The immigrant ancestor of most of the New England family of Hilton was William Hilton, who came from England to America in the ship "Fortune" to Plymouth, November, 1621. His wife and children came in 1623 in the ship "Anne." Land was assigned to the family at Plym- outh in 1623. He removed to Newbury, Massa- chusetts, where he was living in 1635. He was ad- mitted a freeman May 19, 1642. He was a deputy to the general court in 1642 and 1643. He removed again to New Hampshire. His children were: Sarah, born June, 1641, evidently of a second marriage ; Charles, July, 1643; Ann, February 12, 1648; Eliza- beth, November 6, 1650; William, June 28, 1663.


Page Hilton, a descendant of William Hilton, mentioned above, was born in Maine and died in Bath, Maine. He married Mary Ann Caton. He was the father of Charles Fowle Hilton and grand- father of Charles Eugene Hilton, of Worcester.


William Hilton, brother of Page Hilton, was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, November 28, 1813, and died at Hotel Brunswick, Boston, Decem- ber 25, 1887. He started in business as a country storekeeper at Frye village, Andover, Massachusetts. His education was limited in his early years but he was eventually a well-educated man with a bright, open and inquiring mind and wide experience in public affairs. He began buying wool of the farm- ers who then kept sheep generally. About 1843 he removed to Boston to extend his operations in the wool market and produce. In the successive firms of Hilton & Gore, Williams, Hilton & Company and in Hilton, Weston & Company this energetic man rose to the rank of the greatest wool merchant in Boston, well known in all the markets of that staple throughout the world. Every year, in the interests of his house, he spent considerable time in London. Eminently successful as a merchant, public-spirited, just and sagacious, he enjoyed the esteem of the best people of the city. Mr: Hilton was rated as a millionaire.


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He married Esthier A. -, and they have one daughter-Mrs. Catherine (Hilton) Fiske, who survived him. In his will Mr. Hilton provided for the eventual distribution of $540,000 among fifteen religious societies, colleges and charities.


Charles Fowle Hilton, son of Page Hilton and nephew of William Hilton, was a resident of White- field, Maine. He married Charlotte Roe Chapman, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia Ann (Turnbull) Chapman. He died in Freeport, Maine. Charles Fowle Hilton was a lumberman by occupation, also a farmer. He married (second) Eliza Spratt, of Lewiston, Maine, by whom he had eight children, five of whom are living .. Charles F. Hilton was a leading citizen of Castle Hill Plantation, in Aroos- took county, Mainc. The children of Charles Fowle and Charlotte Roe (Chapman) Hilton were : Frances Caroline, Charles Eugene, of whom later; Mary Enez, Lydia Ann, Frank Ellsworth. The children of Charles Fowle and Eliza ( Spratt) Hilton were : Laban Page, Mary, Abigail, William, and several others.


Charles Eugene Hilton, son of Charles Fowle Hilton, was born in Whitefield, Maine. He attended the public schools at Castle Hill, Maine, and later in Worcester, Massachusetts. He worked at farm- ing, having charge of the Heywood farm, Worces- ter, for ten years. He then bought his present es- tate, the old Allen place, and opened a stone quarry. His farm on both sides of Grafton street, the buildings on Woodland place. Mr. Hilton has been very successful in contract work, excavating cellars and furnishing stone for foundations, building high- ways, driveways, etc. He is a Free Mason, a mem- ber of Athelstan Lodge of Worcester; of Worces- ter Royal Arch Chapter; of the Republican Club and other organizations. The former owner of the Hilton place was Major Allen, who sold it to Edward 1. Bliss, of the New York banking firm of Bliss, Morton & Company. Mr. Hilton bought the farm of Mr. Bliss's widow.


Mr. Hilton married Rose May Rich, daughter of Henry V. Rich, of Worcester. Her mother was Deborah Sprague, of Rhode Island, a descendant of the well-known Sprague family of that section. Their children are: Benjamin Charles, born April 13, 1891 ; Irving Henry, February 27, 1893.


GEORGE CONVERSE BIGELOW. John Bigc- low (I), the ancestor of the late George Converse Bigelow, of Worcester, was an early settler in Water- town, being a descendant, according to the pedigree of Bigelow by the late H. G. Somerby, who spent considerable time in searching the English records, viz. : the Herald's visitations, deeds, charters, wills, parish registers and other original documents, of Richard de Baguley, Lord of Baguley, in the county of Chester, England, 1243, since whose time the name has had many variations of spelling, the pres- ent one having been accepted by nearly all the later generations. Some of the descendants spell the name Bagley, however. Not to occupy too much space, we will take the direct line of descent to John Bigelow, of Watertown, from Richard de Baguley, Lord of Baguley, above mentioned, who married Alice, daughter of Ralph de Vernon, and had a son. (II) Ralph de Baguley, who married a daughter of Hamon Massey, Baron of Dunham Massey. He had lands in Baguley and Ollerton in the parish of Knutsford. He had three sons.


(III) Hamon de Baguley, third son of Ralph, and Lord of the Manor of Ollerton Hall in the parish of Knutsford in the county of Chester, left many descendants in Ollerton.


(IV) Ralph de Baguley, of Ollerton Hall, a de-


scendant of Hamon de Baguley, made his will and died in 1540, and left two sons: Randall and Nicho- las.


(\') Randall de Baguley, of Offerton Hall, mar- ried Eleanor , and died 1556; he left two sons : Philip and Robert.


(VI) Robert de Baguley, of Ollerton, was buried at Knutsford, November 4, 1582, leaving two sons: Randall and John.


(VII) Randall Baguley, son of Robert, of Oller- ton, married Jane dicd at Wrentham, county of Suffolk, and was buried May 17, 1626. They had at Wrentham Persis, Susan, William, Margaret, John.


(VIII) John, above named, is said by Mr. Somerby to be the John Biglo or Bigelow, of Water- town. He was a proprietor there as early as 1642. He bought a house and land there in 1649, and took the oath of fidelity at Watertown in 1652, and was admitted a freeman April 18, 1690. He was a blacksmith and planter in the colony, was chosen a surveyor of highways, 1652 and 1660, a constable, . 1663, and one of "the seven men" (selectmen) in 1665-70-71. His homestead was bounded north by Richard Ambler and William Parker, east by Thomas Straight. south by the highway and on the west by Miles Ives. He married (first), August 30, 1642, Mary Warren, a daughter of John and Margaret Warren, and theirs was the first marriage recorded in Watertown. She died October 19, 1691. He married (second), October 2, 1694, Sarah Bemis, daughter of Joseph Bemis, of Watertown. He died July 14, 1703, at the age of eighty-six. His will dated January 4, 1703, was proved July 23, 1703. The children of John and Mary (Warren) Bigelow were: John, born March 14, 1643; Jonathan, born December 11, 1646; Mary, born March 14, 1648, married Michael Flagg, ancestor of the Worcester county Flaggs; Daniel, born December 1, 1650, re- sided in Framingham; Samuel, born October 28, 1653; Joshua, born November 5, 1655, resided in Watertown and Weston, married Elizabeth Flagg ; he was a soldier in King Philip's war in Captain Ling's company, was wounded, and in consideration of his service the general court gave him a grant of land in Narragansett; Elizabeth, born June 15, 1657, married Lieutenant John Stearns; Sarah, born September 29, 1659, married Isaac Learned, of Sher- born, near Framingham; James, lived in Watertown; Martha, born April 1, 1662; Abigail, born February 4, 1664, married Benjamin Harrington ; Hannah, horn March 4, 1666, died young ; a son born and died December IS, 1667.


By his first marriage with Mary Warren the Bigelows are connected by descent with the Warren family. Mary Warren's father, John Warren, was on the list of one hundred and cighteen freeman at Watertown, May 18. 1631. He was selected as one to lay out the highways and see that they be sufficiently repaired, and was selectman from 1636 to 1640. In a very elaborate genealogy of the War- ren family, Professor John C. Warren traced the descent of John Warren from William the Con- queror, and gives the direct line as extended back to the Saxon incursion into England in A. D., 495, as also back through the royal lines of France, Ger- many and Italy. It will be seen from tables given that the blood of the royal lines of England, France, Germany and Italy flows in the veins of the Bige- lows and Warrens. William de Warren, the first of the name, was one of the Norman barons who fought at the battle of Hastings.


Samuel Bigelow, fifth child of John Bigelow, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, October 28, 1653. He married Mary Flagg, daughter of Thomas and


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Mary Flagg, who was born January 14, 1658, and died September 7, 1720. He was a prominent eiti- zen of Watertown. He was an innholder from 1702 to 1716. Ile represented the town in the gen- eral court in 1708-09-10. His will, dated September 30, 1720, mentions his children, as given below, and also some of his grandchildren: John, born May 9, 1675; Mary, born September 12, 1677; Samuel, born September IS, 1679; Saralı, born October 1, 1681, married Josiah Howe; Thomas, of whom later; Merey, born April 4, 1686, (also given Martha) mar- ried Lieutenant Thomas Garfield, son of Captain Benjamin Garfield: Abigail, born May 7, 1687, mar- ried, August 1. 1710, Jonathan Cutler, of Killingly, Conneetient ; Hannah, born May 24, 17II, married Daniel Warren, a soldier in the French war, taken prisoner by the Indians and carried to Canada ; Isane, born May 19, 1691, married Mary Bond and lived at Colehester, Connecticut; Deliverance, born September 22, 1695, married, August 10. 1715, John Sternes.


Thomas Bigelow, fifth child of Samuel Bigelow, was born in Watertown, October 24. 1683: married, July 12. 1705. Mary Livermore, of Watertown. He removed to Marlboro. Massachusetts, where he re- sided until 1720. when he removed to Waltham, where he died October 6, 1755. His wife died Au- gust 14. 1753. Their children: Thomas, born April 26, 1706, resided in Marlboro; Mary, born September 2, 1707: Grace, born February 7, 1709; Uriah, born July 15. 1711, killed in an aeident at Marlboro, March 5. 1734, unmarried; Abraham, born March 5. 1713. resided at Weston; Isaac, born September I, 1716: Jacob, born September, 1717; Sarah, born May 15. 1720, married Lieutenant Elisha Livermore, prominent in Waltham; Josiah, born July 30. 1730.


Lieutenant Josiah Bigelow, youngest child of Thomas Bigelow, was born in Waltham. July 30, 1730: married. July 27, 1749, Mary Harrington. daughter of Jonas and Abigail ( Stearns) Harring- ton. She was born March 8, 1730. Like his brothers Jacob and Abraham he was prominent in town af- fairs and in military service. He was lieutenant of the Weston Artillery Company on the Lexington alarm April 19, 1775. He died at Waltham, July 15, 1810, aged eighty years. His children, all born in Waltham, were: 1. William, born in Weston, Oc- tober II. 1749. was the original character described by Harriet Beecher Stowe in the story of "Old Town Folks" as "Deacon Badger," his wife Hepsibah is deseribed as "Grandmother Badger" and those who remember them say their characters were most accurately depicted. William, the eldest son, is de- scribed as "Uncle Bill." Hepsibah, the mother of Professor Calvin E. Stowe, was known as "Susy." while Eunice figured as "Aunt Lois" and Abigail as "Aunt Keziah." Professor Stowe was the author of many theological works. 2. Anna, born August 23. 1751. 3. Uriah, born November 30, 1753. 4. Converse, born January 20. 1755, of whom later. 5. Mary. born March 3. 1756. 6. Alpheus, born No- vember 4. 1757. 7. Eunice, married. April 24, 1788, Joseph Morse and settled in Templeton. Massachu- setts, and Eaton. New York: had eight children. 8. Uriah, born March 15. 1766. 9. Thomas, born August 11, 1768. 10. Sarah, born July 31, 1773. mar- ried. July 8, 1790. Ilezekiah Morse.


Converse Bigelow, fourth child of Lieutenant Josiah Bigelow. was born at Waltham, January 20, 1755 : married. October 8, 1778, Anna Parks, who was born in Brighton, Massachusetts. February 5, 1756, and died at Sherborn, September 9. 1843. aged eighty-seven years. He removed early to Templeton where his first three children were born, then to Sherborn where he lived the remainder of his days


and died April 23, IS29. He served in the revolu- tionary war from Weston in Captain Samuel Law- son's company, April 19, 1775, also in Captain Asa- hel Wheeler's company, Colonel John Robinson's regiment, in 1776, also corporal in Captain Charles Miles' company, Colonel Jonathan Reed's regiment, at Ticonderoga in 1777. Their children were: Bet- sey, born July 31, 1779, married, May 27, 1806, John Goulding, of Sherborn, had six children; Anne, born March 21, 17SI, died unmarried December 26, 1871, aged ninety years ; John, born January 26, 1783. married Hannah Partridge and settled in Sher- born; died December 8, 1839: she died August 27, 1840: Converse, Jr., born November 20, 178.4, mar- ried Mary Viles: Elijah, born August 31, 1786, married Rebecca Fish; Calvin, born June 30, 1790, married Elizabeth Adams: Sukey, born April 17, 1792, married Josiah Battelle; Sally, born February 4. 1794, married Nathaniel Stearns, resided in Acton: Josiah. born March 22. 1796, married Harriet Sawin; Amos, born March 17, 1798, died July, 1798; Moses, born June 29, ISOI, of whom later.


Amos Bigelow, youngest child of Converse Bige- low, was born in Sherborn, Massachusetts, June 29, ISOI; married, May 27. 1827, Lucy Stowe, born in Stow, Massachusetts, July 27, 1809, died in Sherborn, August 29, 1885. He was a farmer and for many years carried on the Bigelow homestead there, but late in life retired, bought a place in the village and sold the old farm. He was interested in the family history and contributed much to the Bigelow gene- alogy. Their children were: 1. George Converse. of whom later. 2. Amos Elbridge, born May 10, 1830, married Mary Pratt Green, April 4, 1860, and their children are: Irving Elbridge, Grace Hawley and Mary Eleanor. 3. Henry. born November 25, 1833, married. May 10, 1863. Catharine Pierce, born May 10, 1839, died March 13, 1878; he married (second), April 27. 1886, Mary Cockell; Henry came to Wor- cester in 1864 and engaged in the retail boot and shoe business, and about 1873 engaged in the real estate business and appraising property for banks, insurance companies, etc. 4. Edmund Dowse, born December 5. 1838, married Alzina E. Jenkins, born in Nantucket, and settled in Baltimore, Maryland, where he resided many years in ship chandlers' busi- ness, afterwards removing to Kansas City, where he now resides; their children, born in Baltimore, Mary- land. are: Edmund Sprague. Lucy Stowe. and Florence E. He enlisted in the Forty-second Massa- chusetts Regiment. His military services consisted of duty in defense of Washington, D. C., until April, 1863; expedition to Mills Cross Roads, Virginia, after Stuart's Cavalry. December 28-29, 1862; duty on Columbia Pike, February 12, to March 30, 1863; and at Vienna until April II; moved to Norfolk. thence to Suffolk. Virginia, April 15-16: siege of Suffolk, April 17-May 4: Nansemond River, May 3; Siege of Suffolk raised May 4; moved to West Point, May 5, thence to Yorktown. May 31 ; raid to James- town Island. June 10-13; Dix's Peninsula Campaign, June 12-July 10; action at Baltimore Cross Roads, July 2: moved to Washington, D. C., July IO-HI ; march in pursuit of Lee to Berlin, Maryland, July 13-21: moved to Alexandria. August 6, thenec sailed to Folly Island, South Carolina. August 7-13; siege operations on Morris Island, South Carolina,


against Forts Wagner and Gregg. and on


Morris and Folly Islands against


Fort


Sumter and Charleston, August 15 to Novem-


ber 13: expedition to Seabrook Island. November 13-15: resigned and honorably discharged from service on surgeon's certificate of disability, December 12. 1863. 5. Lucy Ann, born May 7, 1840, dlied June 29, 1874. unmarried. 6. Wesley, born No-


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vember 16, 1847, manufacturer of decorative furni- ture in New York, unmarried.




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